In fact, it can get even more confusing. I remember Kenny Clare
[link removed] telling me about touring with Tom Jones. They had a gig with a major Classical Orchestra in the States, but they had a problem in that all of the arrangements for any of the shuffle and swing stuff he did were in 4/4 and in that case, when two 8th notes are written, the Swing is implied. ie they are played as triplets with the middle note missed out. The Orchestra just couldn't get it, so in the end, The MD, Andre Previn (
http://en.wikipedia....dr%C3%A9_Previn ) rewrote all of the orchestra parts in 12/8, even though the rest of the band were in 4/4 so they would get the phrasing to sound right
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